Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-session
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS, upgraded from Dapper
gnome-session: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
libpango1.0-0: 1.28.0-0ubuntu2.1
libcairo2: 1.8.10-2ubuntu1
Every now and then I supose that the system does a maintenance checkup
at (re)boot. Unfortunately I cannot see what is going on, because I only
see squares. Esc does not help, ctrl-alt-backspace does not help either.
There is no way I know how to skip this. The system is used for work and
waiting costs precious time.
I already reinstalled all Pango packages, but it does not help.
Xorg.log says (clock is the same for all messages):
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect
ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 9.9990234375'
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: font_face status is: <unknown error status>
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: scaled_font status is: out of memory
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 9.9990234375', text='Lock
Screen'
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect
ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 8.33203125'
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: font_face status is: <unknown error status>
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: scaled_font status is: out of memory
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 8.33203125', text='Not
responding'
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect
ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 9.9990234375'
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: font_face status is: <unknown error status>
gnome-session[1340]: Pango-WARNING: scaled_font status is: out of memory
For the rest I do not have font problems on that system.
There is a font error. It seems to mention two different DejaVu Sans versions,
but the version on the system is a link in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts to a font in the windows directory,
which is mounted in fstab. Shouldn't gnome-session or pango fall back to
another font? These messages should be readable.
** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/688024
Title:
fonts startup screen shows squares when doing maintenance check
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